Knit cuff



(No Model.)

W. W. BURSON 8: E. E. DAVIS.

KNIT CUFF.

Patented Nov. 26, 1895.

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\VILLIAM lVORTl-I BURSON, OF CHICAGO, AND EUGENE E. DAVIS, OF ROCK- FORD, ASSIGNORS TO SAID BURSON, AND RALPH EMERSON, OF ROOK FORD, ILLINOIS.

KNIT CUFF.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 550,248, dated November 26, 1895.

Application filedFebruary 12, 1894. Serial No. 499,992. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, WILLIAM WORTH BURsoN, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook, and EUGENE E. DAVIs, residing at Rockford, in the county of Winnebago, State of Illinois, citizens of the United States, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Knit Cuffs, of which the following is a specifi'cation.

Our invention relates to knitted tubular fabrics in which a part of the tube is knit plain and another part ribbed, the knitting being done upon the same needles consecutively.

The object of our invention is to produce knit cuffs for shirts and other purposes, one part of which is plain and another part ribbed, more cheaply and better than has heretofore been done.

In the drawings, Figure 1 shows a piece of knit fabric embodying one form of our invention when finished. Fig. 2 shows the same fabric as it comes from the knitting-machine. Fig. 3 shows a fiat view of parts A and O of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 shows a set of needles upon which the fabric may be knit.

Our improved knit fabric is preferably knit upon a straightrow knitting machine, in which two rows of needles are constructed to receive the yarn from a yarn-carrier, which moves in a median line alternately back and forth, and in which the needles of both rows are controlled by automatic devices'for example, such a machine as is shown in the undersigned WV. NV. Bursons pending application for knitting machines, filed March 13, 1886, Serial No. 195,111, in the Patent Office, in which all the needles on one side may be operated, or one portion of the needles on one side or both sides can be operated, according to the pattern of the automatic device controlling the action of the needles, in various stages of knitting.

The operation of knitting plain fabric is well known by those familiar with the art.

In producing the fabric we preferably knit a plain tubular fabric, using both rows of needles, knitting a plain stitch-tube, such as is shown in the section A in Fig. 1. Then if we wish to produce a fabric in which half shall be plain knitting and the other half ribbed, as is shown, for example, in the section of Fig. 1, bounded by the lines II I and L F, we throw out of action one row of needles as, for example, O Dwhich is supposed to knit the side 0 and knit with the row of needles A B the plain portion B of the tube to the line H I. We then shed the stitches from the needles A B and commence knitting at the line F 0, using the needles 0 D and a certain proportion of the needles A B to produce the requisite number of ribbed stitchesas, for example, using all the needles 0 D and needles 3 6 9 12 15, &c., on the line A B-until we have knit a ribbed fabric up to the line II B, when the stitches are dropped from all the needles and the fabric is removed from the machine. Afterward the two halves of the tube can be sewed or united together on the line 0 R and on the opposite edge in any proper manner. We thus have a tube knit continuously through its plain portion and then the ribbed and plain portions united afterward, making virtually one continuous fabric, except the line of union lengthwise between the two halves.

It is obvious that if we prefer we can begin and set up the work at the line H R and knit the ribbed section II R O F as a ribbed fabric, using the rank of needles 0 D and a portion of the needles A B in so doing. WVe can then shed the ribbing-stitches from the needles which have been used in the rank A B, or can transfer them to the corresponding needles on the rank O D to prevent their raveling, and then set up the other side on the rank A B at the line B I and knit plain to the line 0 L, where all the needles are'thrown into action and the plain knitting proceeds on the line F O L, producing the plain tube F L M E.

WVe do not wish to confine ourselves to the exact descriptions herein given, as various modifications can be made without departing from the scope of our invention. I

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A knit cuff, one part of which is a continuous tube knit of plain stitches and the reand united at their edges, substantially as mainder of which is knit in two sections, one described.

of which is ribbed and the other plain. \VILLIAM \VORTII BURSON.

2. A knit end, one part of which is a tube EUGENE E. DAVIS. 5 knit continuously around of plain stitches, Witnesses:

and the other part of which has a ribbed por- LOUIS G. PAVEY, tion and a plain portion both knit as flat Webs IIIRAM D. EASTMAN. 

